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Necks, The: Travel [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]

Label: Northern Spy
Product Code: 32944
Catalog Code: LP-NS-158
Country: USA
 
Price: $34.95



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Starting each day in the Australian studio with a 20-minute improvisation, The Necks trio of Chris Abrahams on piano & keyboards, Tony Buck on drums and Lloyd Swanton on bass developed this, their 21st album, as a collection of "shorter" and varied improvisations, released with minimal overdubs to present their music closer to their exceptional live performances.


Necks, The: Travel

Label: Northern Spy
Product Code: 32943
Catalog Code: CD-NS-158
Country: USA
 
Price: $16.95



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Starting each day in the Australian studio with a 20-minute improvisation, The Necks trio of Chris Abrahams on piano & keyboards, Tony Buck on drums and Lloyd Swanton on bass developed this, their 21st album, as a collection of "shorter" and varied improvisations, released with minimal overdubs to present their music closer to their exceptional live performances.


Roberts, Dean: Not Fire [Used Item]

Label: erstwhile
Product Code: 32802
Catalog Code: ErstPop 003
Country: USA
 
Price: $9.95



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Berlin-based songwriter Dean Roberts' first album in 12 years is a collection of dark and melancholic songs, set in unusual formats based around guitar, electronics, strings, with subtle rhythmic elements, performed by Dean's Dark Moth Ensemble, with additional musicians that include Boris Hauf on piano and The Neck's keyboardist Chris Abrahams on harp.


Abrahams, Chris: Follower [VINYL]

Label: Room40
Product Code: 32613
Catalog Code: RM 4162LP
Country: Australia
 
Price: $28.95



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A diverse album of compositional work from Australian pianist and The Necks legend Chris Abrahams, in two works of rich ambience and spacious soundscape performed on acoustic and electric pianos, organ, detuned bells and acousmatic sources, contrasted with two more capricious works on acoustic piano, unusual percussive platforms, haunting tones and moody interjections.


Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams: Peggy

Label: Recommended Records
Product Code: 32109
Catalog Code: RER JRCA
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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"As Frogworth says in one review: 'Two giants of Australian avant-garde music getting together here, dedicating their record to Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, whose house in Paddington, Sydney is used for residencies/sabbatic...


Necks, The: Vertigo [VINYL]

Label: ReR Vinyl
Product Code: 31781
Catalog Code: RER VN12
Country: UK
 
Price: $26.95



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Reissuing The Necks 18th album, finding the Australian trio of drummer/percussionist Tony Buck, bassist Lloyd Swanton and pianist/keyboardist Chris Abrahams in a vertiginous 44 minute dark excursion punctuated by cliff hanging moments through homemade instruments and unusual textures, one of the darker and more cathartic albums from The Necks large discography.


Avenaim, Robbie / Chris Abrahams / Jim Denley: Weft

Label: Relative Pitch
Product Code: 30681
Catalog Code: RPR1126
Country: USA
 
Price: $13.95



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The Australian trio of percussionist Robbie Avenaim, keyboard player Chris Abrahams performing on a Waldorf Q+ Synthesiser and bass flutist Jim Denley, all compatriots in a variety of groupings, in an extended studio improvisation of spacious textures and rapidly understated percussive elements, aptly titled for the weaving and cris-crossing threads on a loom.


Necks, The: Mindset [VINYL]

Label: ReR Vinyl
Product Code: 30494
Catalog Code: RER VN10
Country: UK
 
Price: $23.95



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The Necks 16th release layers polyrhythmic material to form seething blocks of sound, in two long pieces, one more stripped back to the live trio, the other featuring multiple strata of swirling Hammonds, noise-guitar and electronics.


Abrahams, Chris / Mark Wastell: A Thousand Sacred Steps

Label: Confront
Product Code: 30250
Catalog Code: confront core 01EP
Country: UK
 
Price: $9.95



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Drenched in beautiful ambiance, this inspired and spiritual meeting between Necks pianist Chris Abrahams and percussionist Mark Wastell performing on tam-tam and cymbals, was recorded while The Necks were in residence at Cafe Oto in London, the empathy between the two immediately evident in their graceful approach to these four evolving improvisations.


Roberts, Dean: Not Fire

Label: erstwhile
Product Code: 29064
Catalog Code: ErstPop 003
Country: USA
 
Price: $14.95



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Berlin-based songwriter Dean Roberts' first album in 12 years is a collection of dark and melancholic songs, set in unusual formats based around guitar, electronics, strings, with subtle rhythmic elements, performed by Dean's Dark Moth Ensemble, with additional musicians that include Boris Hauf on piano and The Neck's keyboardist Chris Abrahams on harp.


176 (Chris Abrahams / Anthony Pateras): Music In Eight Octaves

Label: Immediata
Product Code: 24298
Catalog Code: IMM011
Country: Australia
 
Price: $18.95



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In 2005 Australian pianists Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Anthony Pateras multi-tracked 4 takes in each octave of the piano, superimposing them over each other to create a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of pianistic energy, layers of piano creating a hypnotic and dizzying set of textures and unexpected sonic intersections.


Bosetti, Alessandro / Chris Abrahams: A Heart That Responds From Schooling

Label: Unsounds
Product Code: 20639
Catalog Code: 50U
Country: Netherlands
 
Price: $15.95



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The 2nd release from Italian composer/performer Alessandro Bosetti and Australian pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks), a very intimate album of sonic explorations that spans improvised fragments and original renditions of compositions like Steve Lacy's "Esteem" with Bosetti's lyrics.


Abrahams, Chris / Clare Cooper: Germ Studies For Guzheng & DX7

Label: Splitrec
Product Code: 20294
Catalog Code: 19
Country: Australia
 
Price: $26.95



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The Australian duo of pianist Chris Abrahams (Necks) & Berlin harpist Clare Cooper in a series of 198 short improvisations performed on Yamaha DX7 and the 14th century Guzheng harp, presented with 198 illustrations in an unusual and obsessively rewarding project.


Kahn, Jason: Open Space [VINYL 2 LPs]

Label: Editions
Product Code: 17581
Catalog Code: Editions 002
Country: Switzerland
 
Price: $29.95



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Jason Kahn developed these graphic scores, commissioned by the 2012 now NOW Festival in Australia, to push these specific players into situations outside of their comfort zone, as heard in this double LP which includes copies of the score plus notes and interviews.


Bosetti, Alessandro / Chris Abrahams: We Who Had Left

Label: Mikroton Recordings
Product Code: 17102
Catalog Code: cd 19
Country: Russia
 
Price: $13.95



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Necks pianist Chris Abrahams teams up with electronic artist and sound poet Alessandro Bosetti for 6 introspective and mysterious tracks that mix Necks-like playing with ambient electronics and curious monologs, plus one waltz.


Necks, The: Silverwater

Label: Recommended Records
Product Code: 12361
Catalog Code: RERNECKS9
Country: USA
 
Price: $15.95



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The trio of Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton & Tony Buck in their first release in 4 years, named for an industrial suburb, a bleak and beautifully building affair in The Necks tradition.


Necks, The: Townsville

Label: Recommended Records
Product Code: 08972
Catalog Code: RERNECKS8
Country: USA
 
Price: $15.95



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A long, lovely and flowing improvisation from the Necks in a 54 minute live recording recorded in Townsville, Northern Queensland in February, 2007.


Necks, The: Chemist

Label: Recommended Records
Product Code: 06483
Catalog Code: RERNECKS7
Country: Great Britain
 
Price: $15.95



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Necks, The: Hanging Gardens

Label: Recommended Records
Product Code: 01435
Catalog Code: RERNECKS1
Country: Great Britain
 
Price: $15.95



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